AIC SS 2 Government Revision Test for 3rd Term 2022/23
  • 1. 1. One of the following is the reason for conducting election
A) To ensure peaceful changing of government
B) Strengthening the powers of the political parties
C) Creating more political parties
D) Uniting the people
  • 2. 2. The appointment, promotion and discipline of the civil servants are the responsibilities of _____
A) Government
B) Civil service commission
C) Electoral commission
D) Civil service union
  • 3. 3. Public opinion enables the government to ____
A) Organize political conferences
B) Punish political opponents
C) Allow the public to have freedon
D) To know the people's opinions about its activities
  • 4. 4. The major functions of an electoral commission is to ____
A) Nominates candidates
B) Arrange for the conduction of election
C) Appoint chief of staff
D) Support parties
  • 5. 5. An election conducted to resolve important political issues facing a country is called ____
A) Primary election
B) Referendum
C) Bye- election
D) General election
  • 6. 6. Local government laws are known as_____
A) Acts
B) Orders
C) Bye laws
D) Decrees
  • 7. 7. Free and fair election can exist where there is a _____
A) Secret balloting
B) Plebiscite
C) Referendum
D) Double voting
  • 8. 8. One of the reasons for the establishment of local government is to ____
A) Divide the people in order to rule them
B) Bring government nearer to the people
C) Give more powers to the traditional rulers
D) Promotes local chiefs
  • 9. 9. Public corporations are set up by ____
A) Ministers
B) Act of parliaments
C) Governors
D) Board of directors
  • 10. 10. The head of the caliphate in the Hausa/Fulani precolonial political system was called _____
A) Mai
B) Waziri
C) Oba
D) Emir
  • 11. 11. The policy of control by one people or power over other people or areas by establishing colonies and generally with the aim of economic dominance is _____
A) Nationalism
B) Colonialism
C) Imperialism
D) Federalism
  • 12. 12. One of the following is not the reason for colonialism
A) Africa independence
B) Investing surplus capital
C) Religious reasons
D) Geographical importance
  • 13. 13. The two effects of colonialism include the following
A) Formal and informal
B) Positive and negative
C) Legal and illicit
D) Upper and lower
  • 14. 14. One of the following people views neocolonialism as a new form of subjugation
A) David Kwame
B) Richard Nkrumah
C) Chinua Achebe
D) Kwame Nkrumah
  • 15. 15. The use of cultural, economic and political pressure to influence and control decisions in independent countries that were formal colonies is _____
A) Political control
B) Neo-colonialism
C) Colonialism
D) Feudalism
  • 16. 16. Positive effects of colonialism includes the following except ____
A) Creation of large political unit
B) Development of political parties
C) Introduction of money curency
D) Economic dependence and exploitation
  • 17. 17. A system of administration in which the British colonial government adopted as its colonial policy in dealing with the people is called ______
A) Authority
B) Indirect rule
C) Policy of assimilation
D) Rule of law
  • 18. 18. The official colonial policy of the French administration in West Africa is _____
A) Direct rule
B) Rule of law
C) Administration policy
D) Policy of assimilation
  • 19. 19. Policy of association include the following
A) The abolition of first class and second class citizens
B) Dethronement of the traditional rulers
C) Indigenat policy
D) Abolition of people's culture
  • 20. 20. The NCBWA was founded in ____
A) 1970
B) 1817
C) 1770
D) 1917
  • 21. 21. One of the following is not a provision for Clifford Constitution of 1922
A) The Executive Council
B) The Legislative Council
C) Proclamation
D) The Cabinet Member
  • 22. 22. The Governor of Nigeria at the outbreak of the second world war was ____
A) Shehu Shagari
B) David John
C) Richard Bourdillon
D) John Richard
  • 23. 23. The Governor was in office between year _____&____
A) 1939 and 1954
B) 1939 and 1944
C) 1925 and 1930
D) 1935 and 1940
  • 24. 24. The following except one is not the features of Richard Constitution
A) Bi-cameral legislature
B) Legislative powers
C) Regionalism
D) Independence of the Judiciary
  • 25. 25. Aims and objectives of Richard Constitution include _____
A) Political and National conscious
B) Court of Appeals
C) A broad based Constitution
D) Inspiration
  • 26. 26. The provisions for MacPherson Constitution include all but one
A) Board of Directors
B) The Chief Commissioners
C) The Three provinces
D) Council of ministers
  • 27. 27. MacPherson Constitution's weaknesses include the following except one
A) The motion for self government
B) Kano riot of 1953
C) Dominated by illiterates
D) Veto power
  • 28. 28. _____ Constitution was revised through conferences and the product of the revision exercise was Lyttleton Constitution
A) Independent Constitution
B) MacPherson Constitution
C) Richard Constitution
D) Clifford Constitution
  • 29. 29. The composition of the federal house of representatives under the Lyttleton Constitution include ____
A) 1 president and 4 unofficial member
B) 1 president and 2 officials members
C) 1 president and 5 officials members
D) 1 speaker (as president) and 3 ex-officials members
  • 30. 30. Main characteristics of the Independence Constitution of 1960 include ___
A) Parliamentary system.
B) Appointment of ministers
C) Executive power
D) Census figures
  • 31. 31. The controversy over the 1979 Presidential election result was ____
A) Due to the interpretation of 1/4 of the vote cast in 2/3 of all the states in the Federation
B) Over the disputes on the conduct of the election
C) Because educated Nigerians did not approve who received the number of votes
D) Because one of the candidates was declared elected when the result for one of the states had not been received
  • 32. 32. All the following were frontline fighters for Nigeria's Independence except ____
A) Herbert Macaulay
B) Lateef Jakande
C) Aminu Kano
D) Obafemi Awolowo
  • 33. 33. The first political party in Nigeria was _____
A) Nigeria National Democratic Party
B) National Council of Nigeria Citizens
C) Action Group
D) Northern People's Congress
  • 34. 34. Nigeria became a federation under the 1954 Constitution because the Constitution _____
A) Provided for equal representation between the North and South
B) Abolished the practice of nominating some members of parliament
C) Provided for a division of functions between the centre and the component units
D) Created the post of a Prime Minister
  • 35. 35. The first president of the National Council for Nigeria and Camerouns (NCNC) was _____
A) Dr. Micheal Okpara
B) Ernest Okoli
C) Herbert Macaulay
D) Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe
  • 36. 36. The Kano riots of 1953 is significant because
A) It involves rioting between Igbos and Hausas
B) The police couldn't arrest the rioters, thus nobody was charged to court
C) Many innocent lives were lost
D) It was the first outbreak of violence between the major political parties
  • 37. 37. Who among the following was not a founding father of the Nigeria Youth Movement
A) Dr. C. Vaughan
B) Nnamdi Azikiwe
C) Samuel Akinsanya
D) Ernest Ikoli
  • 38. 38. The Jumiyya Mutanem Arewa cultural group later developed into the ______
A) United Middle Belt Congress
B) Northern People's Congress
C) Nigeria National Democratic Party
D) Jamiyya People's Party
  • 39. 39. Action Group was _____
A) The first political party in Western state
B) A cultural association that sought the unity of the Yorubas
C) A political party that fought the British
D) An association that teamed up with the NYM to fight the NCNC
  • 40. 40. The NCNC was formed in ____
A) 1944
B) 1951
C) 1936
D) 1923
  • 41. 41. One of the importance of federalism is that
A) Any components part can secede at any time
B) Citizens cannot be taxed by both State and federal government
C) Each state can develop at its own pace
D) Citizens can only be loyal to the state government
  • 42. 42. The immediate cause of the rain 1953 Kano riot was the ____
A) Ambition of some politicians to secure Independence from British by force
B) Weakness of 1946 Richard Constitution
C) Humiliation of Northern legislators in Lagos
D) Existence of regionally based political parties
  • 43. 43. Political parties are formed for all the following reasons except ____
A) Canvass for votes
B) Organize elections
C) Form a government
D) Educate the electorate
  • 44. 44. The supreme power of a state to make and enforce laws within its jurisdiction is called _____
A) Enfranchisement
B) Sovereignty
C) Decolonization
D) Independence
  • 45. 45. Equality before the law implies that
A) The law does not respect the people
B) There is inequality between the executive and the citizens
C) Everybody can do what he likes
D) No one citizens can sue the other
  • 46. 46. Which of the following is not true of Herbert Macaulay?
A) Founder of the National Congress of British West Africa
B) First Nigerian to found a political party
C) Co-founder of the National Council of Nigeria and Camerouns
D) Founder of the Nigerian National Democratic Party
  • 47. 47. Under the Independence Constitution of Nigeria, the Head of State was ____
A) The British Prime Minister
B) The Queen of England
C) Sir James Robertson
D) Oliver Lyttleton
  • 48. 48. The major innovation of the Republican Constitution of 1963 was that ____
A) The prime minister was nominated by the Executive Council
B) The prime minister ceased to be Head of State
C) The Governor-general's office as the representative of the Queen was abolished
D) The cabinet was no longer responsible to the Legislature
  • 49. 49. The 1953 motion that Nigeria should attain self government in 1956 was moved by _____
A) Chief Obafemi Awolowo
B) Sir Ahmadu Bello
C) Nnamdi Azikiwe
D) Chief Anthony Enahoro
  • 50. 50. The total number of parties registered for the 1979 elections in Nigeria was ____
A) 5
B) 7
C) 6
D) 10
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